The FLOYD surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	64,141	469	0.024	238
United States (1880 census)	12,158	491	0.024	243
Change since 1880	+51983	+22	0	-5
Other Countries
Australia	922	1779	0.006	56
United Kingdom	3,626	1727	0.008	79

Top States for FLOYD by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Georgia	5,493	169	0.067	671
South Carolina	5,084	95	0.127	1,267
Texas	5,029	525	0.024	241
Florida	4,770	391	0.030	298
North Carolina	4,106	262	0.051	510
Top States for FLOYD by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Carolina	5,084	95	0.127	1,267
Mississippi	2,019	195	0.071	710
Georgia	5,493	169	0.067	671
Alabama	2,957	230	0.066	665
North Carolina	4,106	262	0.051	510

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called FLOYD live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called FLOYD represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called FLOYD in Georgia than any other state, but you are more likely to find a FLOYD by picking someone at random in South Carolina than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of FLOYD

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: Wales

Language of origin: Welsh

Ethnic origin: Celtic

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the FLOYD surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the FLOYD surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of FLOYD in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
White (Hispanic)	821	1.28
Native American/Alaskan	366	0.57
Asian/Pacific	199	0.31
White (Caucasian)	43,577	67.94
Black/African American	18,152	28.3
Mixed Race	1,020	1.59

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the FLOYD surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to FLOYD

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as FLOYD.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.